User talk:ClarissaBurt

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, ClarissaBurt!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 19:10, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

File tagging File:A Clarissa headshot 2 burned.png

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:A Clarissa headshot 2 burned.png. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). Warning: unless the permission information is given, the file may be deleted after seven days. Thank you.

 

-- Marchjuly (talk) 01:25, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

In principle, the person taking a photo, not the subject of the photo, is considered to be the copyright holder of the photo and only the copyright holder can release their photo under a Creative Commons license. If the photo was part of a work for hire arrangement between you and the photographer and the photographer then transferred all of their copyright ownership to you, then you can cases upload the file if you want under a free license accepted by Commons. However, if the photographer still retains any copyright ownership over the photos, you will need to have them email their consent to the Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team as explained here and in the above notification template. Furthermore, even if you are the sole copyright holder of the photo, it has been published online on other websites prior to it being uploaded to Commons which further complicates things since then standard licensing of those websites is not suitable for Wikimedia Commons purposes. So, you should follow the guidance given here and send an consent email to VRT for verification purposes.

Finally, before you do anything else, you should take a carefull look at this, this and this and make sure you and the copyright holder (if that's a different person) understand what it means to upload your work to Wikimedia Commons. Bascially, by uploading this photo to Commons, you agreeing to allow anyone anywhere in the world to download it at any time and reuse for any purpose, even if this means for commercial or derivative reuse, or reuse in a way that you mightn't otherwise approve. As long as those who download and reuse the file comply with the terms of the free license you choose, you will have a really hard time stopping them from doing so. Sometimes people upload images to Wikimedia Commons because they want to use them on some Wikipedia page for education purposes only; however, some people don't realize that there's no way to prevent others from reusing the image outside of Wikipedia for other reasons as long as the reuser complies with the terms of the copyright license the file has been released under. So, please make sure that you or whomever is the copyright holder understands and agrees to this. If you or the copyright holder don't agree to this, simply do nothing and the file will be deleted in about a week. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:46, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

File:A Clarissa headshot 2 burned.png

File:A Clarissa headshot 2 burned.png has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added may soon be deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please replace the copyvio tag with {{subst:OP}} and have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you disagree that the file is a copyright violation for any other reason, please replace the copyvio tag with a regular deletion request. This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: Found elsewhere on the web and unlikely to be own work. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:38, 27 May 2023 (UTC)